From: Brenda_Bowen at prenhall.com <Brenda_Bowen>
Date: 13 Oct 1998 12:10:10 -0400

KT: I am less equipped to speak about this extraordinary book than its
     editor, Dick Jackson, but my feeling was that this the story was
     non-linear. There was not a traditional beginning, middle, and end;
     there was very little exposition to set the story in a time and place;
     there was no discernible narrative drive. Though I am no scholar, the
     storytelling reminded me of authentically-transcribed aboriginal tales
     from Australia, or American Indian tales, where the plot picks up
     along a great timeline of story, and leaves off some point later.
     
     GO AND COME BACK is not fragmented, as are MEGABOY and BAT 6, or
     episodic, as is WHIRLIGIG, but I would classify it as non-linear.
     
     Others?
     
     Brenda Bowen
     Simon & Schuster
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